Employees and retirees of Texas Instruments Inc. and the Texas Instruments Foundation contributed $440,152 to the American Red Cross Typhoon Appeal for disaster relief efforts in the Philippines.

The amount includes $270,000 from the TI Foundation of $170,000 in employee and retiree donations worldwide. I wrote about TI's fundraising efforts last month here on this blog.

Last month, Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, resulting in thousands of deaths and displacing more than 650,000 people.

I also blogged that Dallas-based TI said the typhoon spared its two semiconductor factories and 3,400 employees in Baguio and Pampanga (Clark), on the northern Philippines island of Luzon. TI is the largest exporter in the Philippines and has had a presence there since 1980.